Thanks Pascal for clearing out my doubts.
I also wish to know if it's possible to define sub-categories and
category-versions in category.xml.
In the following sample category.xml [1] how can I define category c2.1 as
a subcategory under c2?
Can I give version IDs for my category-defs?
Thanks in advance,
Dileepa
[1]
<site>
<feature url="features/a_1.0.0.SNAPSHOT.jar" id="a"
version="1.0.0.SNAPSHOT">
<category name="c1"/>
</feature>
<feature url="features/b_1.0.0.SNAPSHOT.jar" id="b"
version="1.0.0.SNAPSHOT">
<category name="c1"/>
</feature>
<feature url="features/c_1.0.0.SNAPSHOT.jar" id="c"
version="1.0.0.SNAPSHOT">
<category name="c2"/>
</feature>
<feature url="features/d_1.0.0.SNAPSHOT.jar" id="d"
version="1.0.0.SNAPSHOT">
<category name="c2.1"/>
</feature>
<category-def name="c1" label="Category-A"/>
<category-def name="c2" label="Category-B"/>
<category-def name="c2.1" label="Category-B-II"/>
</site>
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> On 2012-03-18, at 3:04 PM, Dileepa Jayakody wrote:
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> > Hi Devs,
> >
> > I have a requirement of categorising IUs in an existing P2 Repo so that
> when the available features of the repo are queried, they are shown in
> groups under categories (like the 'Grouped by' feature in Eclipse). I came
> across the concept of category.xml to explicitly define IUs under
> categories.
> > My question is how can I retrieve this category metadata when I query
> the available IUs from the repo?
> > Can I use IRepository.getProperties() method to read the category
> metadata from the category.xml in the p2 repo?
> > Or do I have to run 'Category Publisher' application to encode the
> category data into content.xml of the p2 repo; is there any other
> alternative method to categorise IUs in an existing repo?
> The category.xml is only an authoring format. In the end, the
> categories are represented by IUs (InstallableUnit) that are part of the
> metadata repository (content.xml). Theses IUs are generated by the
> 'Category Publisher'. Like any IU those can be access by querying the
> repository. The query can be created using the following:
> QueryUtil#createIUCategoryQuery.
>
> HTH
>
> Pascal
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> > Thanks,
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